Vol. 16 No. 4 (July 2000)

SPECIAL SECTION ON DATABASE MANAGEMENT

1. A Systematic Method for Query Evaluation in Distributed Heterogeneous Databases
   Yangjun Chen......pp. 463-497
   
   

2. An Object-Oriented Query Model: An Algebraic Approach With Closure
   Reda Alhajj......pp. 499-533
   
   
3. On Optimistic Methods for Mobile Transactions
   San-Yih Hwang.....pp. 535-554
   
   
4. Integrating Heterogeneous OO Schemas
   Yangjun Chen.......pp. 555-591
   
   
5. Partial Natural Outerjoin - An Operation for Interoperability in a Multidatabase Environment
   Pauray S. M. Tsai and Arbee L. P. Chen.......pp. 593-617
   
   

Software Engineering

6. Flow Analysis of Class Relationships for Object-Oriented Programs
   Jiun-Liang Chen and Feng-Jian Wang......pp. 619-647
   
   

Signal and Speech Processing

7. Improvement in Connected Mandarin Digit Recognition by Explicitly Modeling Coarticulatory Information
   Ruey-Ching Shyu, Jhing-Fa Wang and Jau-Yien Lee......pp. 649-660
   
   

8. Optimal Feature-based Vector Quantization of Image Coding Using Integral Projection
   Yih-Chuan Lin......pp. 661-668